Overcoming The Right-Wing Lies and Scare Tactics: Obama (Again) Sets Record Straight On Health Care

Here's our president's weekly address in which he explains (again) his healthcare proposal:

What impressed me about this message is how our president speaks about what's really going on despite the news media's obscession with the right-wing hooligans whose only agenda is to prevent any real health care reform from happening:
Here's part of what the president said:

Now, I know there’s been a lot of attention paid to some of the town hall meetings that are going on around the country, especially those where tempers have flared. You know how TV loves a ruckus.
But what you haven’t seen – because it’s not as exciting – are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country where Americans are airing their hopes and concerns about this very important issue.
I’ve been holding some of my own, and the stories I’ve heard have really underscored why I believe so strongly that health insurance reform is a challenge we can't ignore.
They’re stories like Lori Hitchcock’s, who I met in New Hampshire this week. Lori’s got a pre-existing condition, so no insurance company will cover her. She’s self-employed, and in this economy, she can’t find a job that offers health care, so she’s been uninsured for two years.
Or they’re stories like Katie Gibson’s, who I met in Montana. When Katie tried to change insurance companies, she was sure to list her pre-existing conditions on the application and even called her new company to confirm she’d be covered. Two months later, she was dropped – after she’d already gone off her other insurance.
These are the stories that aren’t being told – stories of a health care system that works better for the insurance industry than it does for the American people. And that’s why we’re going to pass health insurance reform that finally holds the insurance companies accountable.
But now’s the hard part. Because the history is clear – every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests with a stake in the status quo use their influence and political allies to scare and mislead the American people.

Notice the last part of this passage. Just as the news media seems incapable of reporting the straight facts about President Obama's popularity (which is still at 60 percent despite media claims of eroding support), it doesn't want folks to know that our president has respectfully and in a clear and to the point manner fielded even the most skeptical of questions about his proposal in BOTH the New Hampshire and Montana townhalls.
It's time the news media stopped presenting fringe right-wing hooligans who'd rather obstruct and prevent any meaningful discussion of healthcare reform as representative of mainstream America and instead listen to folks like those highlight by our president both at his townhalls and in his latest weekly message.